Let’s learn a Japanese phrase from anime/manga every day! (・∀・)ｲｲﾈ!!
I pick up a Japanese phrase from anime/manga (almost) every day to learn Japanese with you all!
I hope this (almost) every-day update post will help you get motivated to learn Japanese.
Today´s phrase is:
Jpn : その誇りは、どんな法律や規則より大切なものだ
Phonetic: Sono hokori wa, donna houritsu ya kisoku yori taisetsu da.
Eng: That pride is more important than any law or regulation.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Vocabulary
その, sono: pre-noun adjectival; that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener), the
誇り（ほこり) hokori: noun; pride, boast
は, wa: topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option
どんな, donna: pre-noun; what, what kind of, any(body, thing)
法律（ほうりつ）houritsu: noun; law
や, ya: particle; such things as( non-exhaustive list related to a specific time and place), and…and,
規則（きそく）kisoku: noun; rule, regulation
よりも, yorimo: expression(phrase, clause); in comparison to, rather than
大切（たいせつ）taisetsu: noun, important, necessary, indispensable
もの, mono: particle, indicates reason or excuse
だ, da: copula, auxiliary verb; be, indicates past or completed action
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Which anime is the phrase from?
Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) (1)
Who said the phrase?
Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito) (3)
Who is Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito)?
He is a fictional character and the protagonist of a light novel series, Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara. In the series, Kirito is depicted as a teenager who was chose as one of 1,000 beta testers for a new state of the art virtual reality MMORPG called Sword Art Online (3).
Who wrote and illustrated?
Reki Kawahara (2)
References
The picture is from, ( Thanks!)
https://www.facebook.com/NhatNguKosei/?__tn__=-UC*F
1) Sword Art Online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online
2) Reki Kawahara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reki_Kawahara
3) Kirito (Sword Art Online)
